Prepared by Ken Mease, this powerpoint presentation held at the Workshop on Governance Assessment Methods and Applications of Governance Data in Policy-Making (June 2009), looks at indicators more closely, and discusses definitions of indicators, macro and micro levels for constructing indicators, different advantages of de jure and de facto indicators, triangulation, indexes versus scales, objective indicators such as reported behaviours and events, perception based indicators such as opinions, and proxy indicators.

1. Indicators: Levels, Types, Existing and New Ken Mease, University of Florida Cairo, June 2009